ANSWER KEY

1.) b

2.) c

3.) c

4.) a

5.) b

6.) c

7.) c

8.) c

9.) b

10.) b

11.) a

12.) b

13.) c

14.) c

15.) c

ESSAY TOPICS - BOOK REPORT IDEAS

1. Jamie Sullivan is depicted as a very good young girl who never loses her patience or her temper; who always tries to good and think of others first; and who seeks to change Landon for his own good as well as hers. At first glance, her character seems too good to be true. Explain why you believe this is so or whether you believe there really are people who are just like Jamie and why.

2. Landon is the last person in her graduating class that people thought Jamie might have picked to be in the play. Why?

Why do you believe that she chose him?

3. Jamie frequently mentions that everything is part of God's Plan. Explain what she means and demonstrate with events from the story, how everything, at least in this tale, is part of a greater plan.

4. There are several miracles that occur in this story. Name them and explain why they are miraculous.

5. Discuss the bad blood that exists between Jamie's father and the Carters. How did it occur, how does Jamie help to resolve it, and how does she believe Landon can make up for what his grandfather had done.

6. How does the play The Christmas Angel impact on the following: Jamie, Landon, Hegbert, and the community?

7. How does the fact that Jamie's dying impact on the following: Landon, Hegbert, and the community?

8. Describe the process that Jamie uses to change Landon by citing the events of the story as support for your answer.

9. Discuss how God leads Landon to find the right answer to how he can help Jamie.

10. Explain how the final two paragraphs of the story are significant and how they leave the reader with, perhaps, an unanswered question.

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